USAMO Day 2
by shiningsunnyday, Apr 21, 2017, 12:42 AM
7/0-1/0
I guess my MOP dream will forever remain a dream...
First spent a solid 10 mins crying about the subject distribution. Then had P4 solved in exactly one hour and written up my induction solution in the next 30 mins. Then spent rest of time (~2.5 hours) flailing around and making incorrect claims on 5 and 6 so most likely 7/0/0.
That puts me at a total of 14-16. I really hope I can get a point or two from P2 or maybe P5 to give me a bit of breathing room above the massive tie that'll probably occur at 14.
Even though I know a lot of factors don't work your way, it still would've been nice if all the olympiad geo configs/lemmas I studied didn't get learned for nothing...
I guess I'll just be thankful for making it to this position this year in the first place?
I guess my MOP dream will forever remain a dream...
First spent a solid 10 mins crying about the subject distribution. Then had P4 solved in exactly one hour and written up my induction solution in the next 30 mins. Then spent rest of time (~2.5 hours) flailing around and making incorrect claims on 5 and 6 so most likely 7/0/0.
That puts me at a total of 14-16. I really hope I can get a point or two from P2 or maybe P5 to give me a bit of breathing room above the massive tie that'll probably occur at 14.
Even though I know a lot of factors don't work your way, it still would've been nice if all the olympiad geo configs/lemmas I studied didn't get learned for nothing...
I guess I'll just be thankful for making it to this position this year in the first place?
problems solved or higher which means that cutoffs should be lower this year and similar to the 2015 MOP cutoff(green was 
and blue was 
due to the hard #1) and this was similar. Keep hope alive! 
but wish you the best of luck on college aspirations! 
May 2018
April 2018